The Statutes at Large: From Magna Charta to ... 1869 ...Joseph Bentham, 1763 - Law |
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act concerning action affent affigned affurance afore againſt alfo alſo Anno attaint authority aforefaid bailiffs borough cafe caufe cauſe city of London cloth commiffion common common law contrary court cuftom difcretion divers efcheator effoin enacted by authority eſtabliſhed faid act faid city faid county faid fovereign lord fale feal felony feoffments fhall fheriffs fhire fhould fpiritual and temporal ftatute ftrangers fuch perfon fufficient fuit fums hath hereafter hereditaments holden houfes houſes iffues juftices of peace King our fovereign King's fubjects King's highneſs lands letters patents licence lord the King lords fpiritual manner and form manors mayor meaſure merchandiſes merchants moſt murder notwithſtanding offenders ordained otherwife pain of forfeiture penalty perfon or perfons pewter poffeffion prefent act prefent parliament affembled premiffes Provided alway reafon realm of England ſaid ſhall ſuch tenements thall thereof thing unto uſe veffels Wales wardens wife writ
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Page 205 - ... have committed many heinous felonies and robberies, to the great hurt and deceit of the people they have come among,
Page 417 - Elizabeth's heirs of her body ; and so on from issue female to issue female, and the heirs of their bodies, by course of inheritance according to their ages, as the crown of England hath been accustomed and ought to go, in case where there be heirs female of the same ; and in default of issue female, then to the king's right heirs for ever.
Page 312 - Lord, his heirs and successors kings of this realm, shall be taken, accepted, and reputed the only Supreme Head in earth of the Church of England called Anglicana Ecclesia, and shall have and enjoy annexed and united to the imperial crown of this realm as well the title and style thereof, as all honours, dignities, pre-eminences, jurisdictions, privileges, authorities, immunities, profits, and commodities, to the said dignity of Supreme Head of the same Church belonging and appertaining...
Page 411 - February next coming, do maliciously wish, will, or desire by words or writing, or by craft imagine invent, practise, or attempt any bodily harm to be done or committed to the King's most royal person, the Queen's, or their heirs apparent, or to deprive them or any of them of the dignity, title, or name of their royal estates...
Page 355 - ... be from henceforth clearly deemed and adjudged to be in him or them that have, or hereafter shall have, such use, confidence or trust, after such quality, manner, form and condition as they had before, in or to the use, confidence or trust that was in them.
Page 413 - King's moft excellent majefty, by and with the advice and confent of the lords fpiritual and temporal, and the commons, in this prefent parliament aflembled...
Page 355 - ... of any lands tenements or hereditaments to any use confidence or trust all such right title entry interest possession rents and action as they or any of them had or might have had before the making of this act.
Page 317 - England, shall yearly have, take, enjoy, and perceive, united and knit to his imperial Crown for ever, one yearly rent or pension amounting to the value of the tenth part of all the revenues, rents...
Page 355 - ... rent, of and in such like estate as they had in the title, interest or use of the said rent or profit, and as if a sufficient grant, or other lawful conveyance had been made and executed to them...
Page 303 - ... in any other manner than he or they should or ought to have done before the making of this act, and as if this act had never been had or made.